{"id":73761,"date":"2017-11-14T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/moon-vs-mars-and-asteroids-watch-space-advocates-debate-where-we-should-go"},"modified":"2017-11-14T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:42:29","slug":"moon-vs-mars-and-asteroids-watch-space-advocates-debate-where-we-should-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/moon-vs-mars-and-asteroids-watch-space-advocates-debate-where-we-should-go","title":{"rendered":"Moon vs. Mars and asteroids: Watch space advocates debate where we should go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-vs-mars-and-asteroids-watch-space-advocates-debate-where-we-should-go.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk has famously said he\u2019d like to die on Mars \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/elon-musk-at-sxsw-id-like-to-die-on-mars-just-not-on-impact\/\">\u201cjust not on impact.<\/a>\u201d But where will humans live in space? That was the focus of a good-natured debate that took place at this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/events.economist.com\/events-conferences\/americas\/the-new-space-age\/\">\u201cNew Space Age\u201d<\/a> conference at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Lewicki, president and CEO of Redmond, Wash.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\">Planetary Resources<\/a>, took up the case for going to asteroids and Mars. Seattle-area entrepreneur Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Florida-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonexpress.com\/\">Moon Express<\/a>, spoke for the moon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/moon-vs-mars-vs-asteroids-watch-space-advocates-debate-go\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/moon-vs-mars-vs-asteroids-watc...debate-go\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk has famously said he\u2019d like to die on Mars \u2014 \u201cjust not on impact.\u201d But where will humans live in space? That was the focus of a good-natured debate that took place at this week\u2019s \u201cNew Space Age\u201d conference at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight. Chris Lewicki, president and CEO of Redmond, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}